The New Social Environment#889

Gego: Measuring Infinity

Featuring Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães and Amanda Gluibizzi, with Lara Carmen Hidalgo

 

1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

Curator Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães joins Rail ArtSeen Editor Amanda Gluibizzi for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Lara Carmen Hidalgo.

In this talk

Visit Gego: Measuring Infinity, on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through September 10, 2023 →

Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães

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Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães is Associate Curator of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Based in New York, she specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American art, both organizing exhibitions and collaborating on Bilbao’s exhibition program. She is also involved with the Guggenheim’s Latin American Circle, a committee of patrons who provide financial support for the acquisition of works by Latin American artists for the museum’s collection. Within this initiative, Gutiérrez-Guimarães co-commissions the annual performance program Latin American Circle Presents, which has featured artists such as Pia Camil, Carlos Martiel, Amalia Pica, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, and Cecilia Vicuña.

Amanda Gluibizzi

This is a sunny portrait of the Rail's Art Editor, Amanda Gluibizzi with houses in the background and a blue sky. Gluibizzi is wearing a yellow shirt and sunglasses.
Formerly Associate Professor at Ohio State University, Amanda Gluibizzi is the founding Co-Director of the New Foundation for Art History (NFAH) and Artseen Editor for the Brooklyn Rail. She specializes in mid- and late-20th century art, design, and urbanism in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Amanda is the author of Art and Design in 1960s New York (Anthem Press, 2021).

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Lara Carmen Hidalgo reading.

Lara Carmen Hidalgo

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Lara Carmen Hidalgo is a poet and photographer based in New York. She graduated with an MFA from Bard College in 2023. Her work inhabits collections at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Yale University, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, among others. Her recent publication, Vegetative Delirium, traces parallel ecological, technological, personal, and geopolitical lineages of the Mekong Delta and the American War in Vietnam.

❤️ 🌈 We'd like to thank the The Terra Foundation for American Art for making these daily conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive.